Word of the Day: ACYROLOGICAL


ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ἀκυρολόγος (akyrologos) (incorrect in speech);
from ἀ (not) + κῦρος (authority) + λόγος (speech) + -ical


EXAMPLE
for adverb form – (‘acyrologically – incorrectly as regards the use of words’)

“…He saith, (but Magisterially without the least proof) that the Apostle speaks Acurologically and abusively; and by sanctified, means quasi, as if they were sanctified…”

From: Plain Scripture Proof of Infants Church-Membership and Baptism
By Richard Baxter, 1651

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